Re: Desired feature

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:24:11 -0600 (CST), "Bob Friesenhahn"
<address@hidden> said:
> It would be useful if Automake supported a set of options (e.g.
> LDFLAGS) which are applied only when building libraries or when
> building programs.  It is excessively painful to have to add
> per-target _LDFLAGS options.  Perhaps there should be both 'LT' and
> non-'LT' macro versions.
> 
> Certainly this can be accomplished by overriding Automake's standard
> LINK and COMPILE definitions, but overriding standard definitions is
> risky.

Seconded!

It would be great to have `LT_LDFLAGS = -module', rather than 15 lines of
`foo_LDFLAGS = -module' in a future m4 Makefile.am :-)

Cheers,
        Gary.
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